RoK the Reaper
Smash Lord
Any tournaments in the next week? Best Ike Alive is looking to make an appearence.
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i like that idea instead of saying u dont like him and banning himIt's too soon to be able to draw any conclusions from a Metaknight ban, especially after only one tournament. You'll still hear/see DeDeDe, Falco, Game and Watch and Marth (and in our special case, that one random Yoshi) all over the place. I suggested to Andy to alternate the weeklies having him banned and then not banned to try and test it out.
Suggestion: record everyone's 'main' for data collection purposes and get some concrete data on this.
Comments and changes to the tournament scene are also important enough to be discussed. Afterall, we are the people who play the game.i like that idea instead of saying u dont like him and banning him
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true i dont like it when some says we should ban him/her or something without reason or evidence of why or why not and whats wrong or not wrong with it.Comments and changes to the tournament scene are also important enough to be discussed. Afterall, we are the people who play the game.
true i dont like it when some says we should ban him/her or something without reason or evidence of why or why not and whats wrong or not wrong with it.
Tournament data is tournament data. It's unfair to place players (family) whom play one another all the time in the same bracket. If they meet up in losers, well that's fine. However, meeting up through winners in the first couple rounds...not fine. Wait till UTD Zac posts the bracket so that we can have a more accurate description of who SNAP played and would have played. Let's not pull a Hylian and contest tournament bracket placings for no reason (/endsarcasm). If you get an easy bracket, you get an easy bracket. However, there is no way that a player can go through a tournament without playing 2-3 top players in his/her way to first. In addition, giving Infinity a high skill rating made it so that he doesn't play OTHER high skill rating players. That helps him silly. Also, he used Marth throughout most of the tournament who happens to have no more than two 45:55 matchups. We can go through his bracket and calculate his edge against each opponent that he played. Infinity has more than enough experience, against different characters, in order to pick up a dominating character such as marth and adjust.snip.
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What was different? - Far more diversity. I had the pleasure of fighting Lucario's, Wario's, Olimars, and even a R.O.B.Yall are missing something here. This isn't the end all when it comes to discussion on the ban of MK. This was just a test and we are giving our input to how you felt during the tournament with regards to how you played and how you counterpicked and whatnot. Whether or not your decisions on counterpicks, stages and characters, were affected with the loss of MK. What was different? What was the same? We need all this input to help out.
Don't make an argument about how MK should or shouldn't be banned because of this one tournament. Obviously we aren't going to keep the ban on MK for all tournaments until more concrete evidence comes (I'm not even sure if DPhat was planning on doing it anymore after this, I thought it was a one time thing just to see for now, but I could be wrong). Just discuss possibly some of your matches and if you changed anything because of the loss of MK. Did you enjoy the tournament more? Did you find the tournament harder? Why or why not?
Personally, I didn't face anyone that would've played MK against me so the tournament was the same as it always has been for me.
Yall are missing something here. This isn't the end all when it comes to discussion on the ban of MK. This was just a test and we are giving our input to how you felt during the tournament with regards to how you played and how you counterpicked and whatnot. Whether or not your decisions on counterpicks, stages and characters, were affected with the loss of MK. What was different? What was the same? We need all this input to help out.
Don't make an argument about how MK should or shouldn't be banned because of this one tournament. Obviously we aren't going to keep the ban on MK for all tournaments until more concrete evidence comes (I'm not even sure if DPhat was planning on doing it anymore after this, I thought it was a one time thing just to see for now, but I could be wrong). Just discuss possibly some of your matches and if you changed anything because of the loss of MK. Did you enjoy the tournament more? Did you find the tournament harder? Why or why not?
Personally, I didn't face anyone that would've played MK against me so the tournament was the same as it always has been for me.
i found it wierd not using mk but i did see a LOT of the same chars. but thats like melee-marth,shiek,falco,foxDaimonster;55575 Echo said:Test[/B] run in order to gather data from other players and their matchup analysis. The idea is to determine whether or not metaknight impacts the metagame to the point in which revolves around countering that one character. Even without metaknight, can we decide if the game is still playable with a character banned? Does it degrade the metagame to XXX and XXX? These unknown variables are what we are trying to test and figure out in order to determine how metaknight effects these variables. By playing more and more MK banned tournaments, we can determine the dominating factors in brawl and how they affect the metagame. Can other characters compete by fighting according to their weaknesses and opponents strengths? How does this effect the outcome of a tournament? If the SBR cannot come to an agreement as to how metaknight effects the metagame. Maybe our community can find the answer and make an impact for smashers all over the U.S.A.
Sorry, I made a mistake. Sometimes it's difficult reading your posts without proper syntax. It appeared to me as if you were complaining whenever you were not. Didn't mean to direct my post in a hurtful manner or towards you etc etc. Hope to see you at future tournaments.i wasnt complaing
I said I was fine with this. Read Walls before you post condradictory walls.Tournament data is tournament data. It's unfair to place players (family) whom play one another all the time in the same bracket. If they meet up in losers, well that's fine. However, meeting up through winners in the first couple rounds...not fine. Wait till UTD Zac posts the bracket so that we can have a more accurate description of who SNAP played and would have played. Let's not pull a Hylian and contest tournament bracket placings for no reason
He had a ranking of 9. He had to face you his first round. That didn't help him, silly. However, this is focusing too much on Infinity's position in al of this, and despite many any menial arguement that could be had, that is not my main point.(/endsarcasm). If you get an easy bracket, you get an easy bracket. However, there is no way that a player can go through a tournament without playing 2-3 top players in his/her way to first. In addition, giving Infinity a high skill rating made it so that he doesn't play OTHER high skill rating players. That helps him silly. Also, he used Marth throughout most of the tournament who happens to have no more than two 45:55 matchups. We can go through his bracket and calculate his edge against each opponent that he played. Infinity has more than enough experience, against different characters, in order to pick up a dominating character such as marth and adjust.
Careful guys, I'm actually being productive for once.Yall are missing something here. This isn't the end all when it comes to discussion on the ban of MK. This was just a test and we are giving our input to how you felt during the tournament with regards to how you played and how you counterpicked and whatnot. Whether or not your decisions on counterpicks, stages and characters, were affected with the loss of MK. What was different? What was the same? We need all this input to help out.
Don't make an argument about how MK should or shouldn't be banned because of this one tournament. Obviously we aren't going to keep the ban on MK for all tournaments until more concrete evidence comes (I'm not even sure if DPhat was planning on doing it anymore after this, I thought it was a one time thing just to see for now, but I could be wrong). Just discuss possibly some of your matches and if you changed anything because of the loss of MK. Did you enjoy the tournament more? Did you find the tournament harder? Why or why not?
Personally, I didn't face anyone that would've played MK against me so the tournament was the same as it always has been for me.
It's also unfair to place people with little to no experience with a character into a high end bracket. My bracket was bye, you, Kado, then Andy; all of which have a lot more experience with their characters then I do. I put up a close set with both Kado and Andy using Marth and Falco respectively so you are correct that I can adjust, but that doesn't change the fact that altering the bracket for one person is completely unfair to everyone else in the tournament. As it stood Stacie would not have had to play against Eric until late in his bracket anyway from what I understand. I'm not complaining about my bracket; just that the changes were rigged for one person and that's REALLY high on the not-cool-o-meter. No big deal happening this one time, just if you're going to do it again make sure that everyone is aware of what's going on and how it will affect them.Tournament data is tournament data. It's unfair to place players (family) whom play one another all the time in the same bracket. If they meet up in losers, well that's fine. However, meeting up through winners in the first couple rounds...not fine. Wait till UTD Zac posts the bracket so that we can have a more accurate description of who SNAP played and would have played. Let's not pull a Hylian and contest tournament bracket placings for no reason (/endsarcasm). If you get an easy bracket, you get an easy bracket. However, there is no way that a player can go through a tournament without playing 2-3 top players in his/her way to first. In addition, giving Infinity a high skill rating made it so that he doesn't play OTHER high skill rating players. That helps him silly. Also, he used Marth throughout most of the tournament who happens to have no more than two 45:55 matchups. We can go through his bracket and calculate his edge against each opponent that he played. Infinity has more than enough experience, against different characters, in order to pick up a dominating character such as marth and adjust.
I'm soooo confused by this... What did you mean when you mentioned me?Tournament data is tournament data. It's unfair to place players (family) whom play one another all the time in the same bracket. If they meet up in losers, well that's fine. However, meeting up through winners in the first couple rounds...not fine. Wait till UTD Zac posts the bracket so that we can have a more accurate description of who SNAP played and would have played. Let's not pull a Hylian and contest tournament bracket placings for no reason (/endsarcasm). If you get an easy bracket, you get an easy bracket. However, there is no way that a player can go through a tournament without playing 2-3 top players in his/her way to first. In addition, giving Infinity a high skill rating made it so that he doesn't play OTHER high skill rating players. That helps him silly. Also, he used Marth throughout most of the tournament who happens to have no more than two 45:55 matchups. We can go through his bracket and calculate his edge against each opponent that he played. Infinity has more than enough experience, against different characters, in order to pick up a dominating character such as marth and adjust.
Echo, you had plenty of time to read and understand the rules of Dphats tournament. The tournament was/is a Test run in order to gather data from other players and their matchup analysis. The idea is to determine whether or not metaknight impacts the metagame to the point in which revolves around countering that one character. Even without metaknight, can we decide if the game is still playable with a character banned? Does it degrade the metagame to XXX and XXX? These unknown variables are what we are trying to test and figure out in order to determine how metaknight effects these variables. By playing more and more MK banned tournaments, we can determine the dominating factors in brawl and how they affect the metagame. Can other characters compete by fighting according to their weaknesses and opponents strengths? How does this effect the outcome of a tournament? If the SBR cannot come to an agreement as to how metaknight effects the metagame. Maybe our community can find the answer and make an impact for smashers all over the U.S.A.
its ok man i have bad grammar and im lazy. see u on wensday hopefullySorry, I made a mistake. Sometimes it's difficult reading your posts without proper syntax. It appeared to me as if you were complaining whenever you were not. Didn't mean to direct my post in a hurtful manner or towards you etc etc. Hope to see you at future tournaments.
i had a great time and i like infinitys idea of doing it every so often, i thought it was a good idea.****it, alright from what I can metaknight users weren't happy, as predicted, and everyone else enjoyed the tournament from what I read and bracket match up has no effect on whether the tournament was successful or not. I know I changed it once since I saw snap & Fogo and big bob & rob were playing each other in round one and I don't feel bad about doing the bracket change since this was a friendly tournament. But I decided that if there is going to be so much negativity then I guess I won't hold another mk ban till sbr finalize it.
Another note, people if you eat at my place please font leave a mess. I allow you guys to come over and play without charging a venue fee so least you guys can to is help clean up before leaving.
It was in refrence to how at HOBO 10 when the teams came up where you had to fight Broken arrow first round you swiftly had the brackets changed, and again on some other occassion i think, but i cant be too sure.I'm soooo confused by this... What did you mean when you mentioned me?
Uh, I had the brackets changed because they weren't seeded obviously if Sethlon and I were playing Broken arrow first round...That's just bull****.It was in refrence to how at HOBO 10 when the teams came up where you had to fight Broken arrow first round you swiftly had the brackets changed, and again on some other occassion i think, but i cant be too sure.
Or it might have been talking about your luck with easy brackets and such, also in refrence to HOBO 10.
I'm just a messenger. I have no idea what your brackets look like. >_>Defense.
I was fine with moving Snap around the first time. Not the time after D-Phat moved a bunch of people around. Am I speaking Russian?SrsCat: Are you really serious? I read your "wall" and posted a contradictory "wall." They are not walls, they are topic arguments.
First off, you are not "fine" with SNAP getting moved around 3 times. You made it very clear in your post on pg.177 that moving the brackets had a "heavy change" on the tournament results. You stated "I just didn't think that it played out right?" Trying to place Fogo and Snap on opposite sides of the bracket does not make a tournament "play out differently." They eventually have to face each other no matter what winners or losers place they get themselves into. That pretty much sums up my argument on that matter.
You obviously missed the point, the point was not that I am essentially a tournament smash noob. The point is that if you picked up, say, Game and Watch. You've only really fooled around with him before but now you want to try to run him in tournament. You attempt to play him at a tournament after only four days of practice and the only other person you had to face was D-Phat. You have a Marth and Olimar match-up down, but your skill versus essentially every other character is hindered because you don't have as much experience with the character. Same case, different analogy.. How well he places in tournament is determined by his knowledge of the game and fighter experience. Infinity is known for taking multiple tournaments and there is plenty of data backing that up. You can't pick up Falco, Snake or any character for that matter in 4 days and play them effectively in tournament. Reason being, your knowledge of the game is on a much lower level than many players who consistently play in local tournaments. Nobody forced anyone to enter the tournament. Your decision to not compete is completely your own. ::::Somewhat related::::-I picked up marth right off the bat sat. night playing bwett's yoshi and learned very quickly how the matchup is supposed to be played. I did remarkably well facing a pro yoshi as a noob marth during a yoshi boards claimed 65:35 marth matchup.
OK, maybe it wasn't Rainbow Cruise, but I do know that you did use Lucario instead of your normal counterpick, Metaknight, on a counterpick stage. you even mentioned that to whomever you were playing after the match. Heaven forbid I make a mistake and not get verbally thrashed for doing so. Once again, the point is that the information on why you picked Lucario for that match-up in a non-MK environment would be useful knowledge.If we are to post conglomerated overall tournament data; we can come to a better realization of how a MK-Banned tournament looks like.
P.S-I did not use lucario on rainbow cruise. How does your cerebral cortex function properly if you imagine me using lucario on rainbow cruise.
I didn't know what changes you made exactly, all I knew was that they were changed and then Fogo wanted them changed again. The source of the debate is not with the MK ban, it's with the fact that the brackets were changed 3 times.****it, alright from what I can tell metaknight users weren't happy, as predicted, and everyone else enjoyed the tournament from what I read and bracket match ups has no effect on whether the tournament was successful or not. I know I changed it once since I saw snap & Fogo and big bob & rob were playing each other in round one and I don't feel bad about doing the bracket change since this was a friendly tournament. But I decided that if there is going to be so much negativity then I guess I won't hold another mk ban till sbr finalize it.
Call me sometime AFTER 12 lol I'm always asleep when you call me >.<Fogo: Answer my calls. I actually want to play more than find out if you scrapped my controller for parts and profit. arse